I have tried and failed, you guys have been great. Can you please assist in formatting my output which goes to a file (spaceavail). I am trying to format disk space output, well something similar anyway. TIA 
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/xxxdev/xxxx/xxxxx    2016343 1392038  563815    72%    /
/ppppp                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
mnrop                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnrop
hd                         0       0       0     0%    /xxxdev/hd
ssss                 3888816      40 3888776     1%    /var/run
ssss                 3888848      72 3888776     1%    /tmp
/xxxdev/xxx/xxxxxxxx    32442879  523718 31594733     2%    /export/ho
+me

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format DISKSPACE =
======================
|@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<|
$Filesystem

|@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<|
$kbytes

|@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<|
$used

|@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<|
$avail

|@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<|
$capacity

|@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<|
$Mounted_On
======================
.


sub df_total {

open my $dfout, "df -k|" or die "couldn't start df -k: $!";
open (DISKSPACE, "> spaceavail") || die "Error opening file spaceavail
+";
while (<$dfout>) {
#chomp;
($Filesystem, $kbytes, $used, $avail, $capacity, $Mounted_On) = split 
+(//);
  write (DISKSPACE);
}
}


print "\n  My First Perl Menu\n";
print "A.  Current Date & Time\n";
print "B.  Users currently logged in\n";
print "C.  Name of working directory\n";
print "D.  Contents of the working directory\n";
print "E.  Names & Login names of user currently logged on to aries\n"
+;
print "F.  Aries Disk Space Utilization\n";

print "Enter A, B, C, D, E, F: \n";

$answer = <STDIN>;
chomp ($answer);

if ($answer eq "A") {
      system "date \n";
}
elsif
    ($answer eq "B") {
      system "who \n";
}
elsif
   ($answer eq "C") {
     system "pwd \n";

}

elsif
   ($answer eq "D") {
     system "ls -Fla \n";
}

elsif
   ($answer eq "E") {
     system "finger \n";
}

elsif
   ($answer eq "F") {
     system "df -k \n";
     &df_total
}

else {
   print "The selection you entered: $answer, is incorrect. Please ent
+er A, B, C
, D, E
 or F \n";
}

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